Sign up for action alerts & news.15.3 percent of people in the United States don't have health insurance.Find the most up-to-date data available on working family issues.Search by:Greedy CEOs and anti-union front groups are working overtime to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act.Watch clip of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka at the March 9 rally, where the crowd staged a citizen's arrest of Big Health Insurance.The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions. The AFL-CIO was created in 1955 by the merger of the AFL and the CIO.The AFL-CIO union movementrepresents11.5 million members, including 3 million members in Working America, its community affiliate. We are teachers and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and engineers, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and plumbers—and more.In 2009, delegates to the 26th AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention elected Richard Trumkaas president and Liz Shuler as secretary-treasurer. Arlene Holt Baker was re-elected as executive vice president.Check out the researcher and campaigner rsum posting service.Link to the AFL-CIO Now blog.Get AFL-CIO Web banners.